Awaken each morning with peace, purpose, and positivity. Empower yourself, boost your confidence, and cultivate a resilient mindset to gracefully navigate your daily challenges. Follow me on AURA for the latest updates and new inspiring meditations. Thank you so much for your support!

Start each day positively with AURA for meditations and motivation to conquer daily challenges and boost confidence.

Morning: Embracing A Radiant New Day

Release the past and rise free. This is a love letter to the part of you that has carried too much for too long. You don’t need to wrestle with the past anymore. You don’t need to keep rewriting old chapters, hoping they’ll end differently. This meditation is a quiet rebellion—a moment to strip away yesterday’s weight, to step out of the echoes of what was, and to awaken lighter, untamed, and fully yours again. Feel the warmth of the morning melt through your skin, dissolving old ghosts. Let your breath be a slow, sensual untangling of everything that no longer serves you. No force, no struggle—just a deep, intoxicating surrender to now. This is where you let go. This is where you rise. This is where you become unstoppable.

Let go of the past, rise free, and become unstoppable by surrendering to the present moment and releasing what no longer serves you.

Unchained: A Powerful Morning Meditation

Refresh and energize with this quick 5-minute confidence boost perfect for when you have a big presentation at work or in school. Even when your day is hectic and busy, allow a few minutes to reset, recenter, and refocus.

Take 5 minutes to reset, recenter, and refocus for a confidence boost, ideal for big presentations or busy days.

Quick Confidence Boost

This short reflection invites you to let go of any judgment you be holding toward yourself and accept yourself-wherever you may be in your journey right now.

Let go of self-judgment and accept yourself wherever you are in your journey.

I am…

Calm anxiety and gain a deep sense of calm confidence in your own life. It’s safe to believe in yourself.

Believe in yourself to calm anxiety and gain confident composure.

Believe in Yourself (Calm Confidence)

Too often we are trying to live life 25 steps ahead of where we are right now-- causing ourselves stress and upset. Take 5 minutes to slow down and take the day moment by moment, breath by breath, step by step.

Live in the present moment and take life step by step to reduce stress and anxiety.

Step By Step

Feel good morning meditation to help simplify your day, especially when you’re feeling overwhelmed, anxious, worried, or burnt out.

Morning meditation eases anxiety, worry, and burnout, simplifying your day with positivity and calmness.

Simple Feel-Good Morning

Go beyond resolutions and goal setting and receive guidance on the coming year from your calm, intuitive self.

Get guidance for the new year from your intuitive self instead of making resolutions and goals.

New Years Meditation - Set Intentions

Feel the safety, love, and comfort of your angels as you call in your loving angel to protect you as you go about your day.

Call on your angel for protection and comfort throughout your day.

Angel Protection

Use this visualization practice to let go of resistance and struggling in life. Instead of protecting, allow yourself to trust the natural flow of the Universe. Allow yourself to trust your Self.

Visualize to release resistance & struggle in life, trust natural flow of Universe & self instead of protecting.

Flow with the Universe - Not Against It

In today’s world, feeling overwhelmed is bound to happen at some point. This short meditation uses an affirmation to help you check stop to check in with yourself. To acknowledge your feelings, whatever they might be today.

Overcome feeling overwhelmed with a short meditation that uses affirmations to check in with yourself and acknowledge your feelings.

All of My Feelings Are OK

Protective angels are around you right now…feel loved, supported, protected, and safe as you receive Angel guidance from your very own Angel in the room.

Feel loved, supported, and safe as you receive Angel guidance from your own Angel who is protecting you at the moment.

Angel Guidance

Particularly in difficult times, are minds are taken endlessly away from what's here and now into the future - the near or far possible futures. The possibilities are endless, and we don't know how it will play out. How about coming back to what's actually happening right now, and feel the power of being simply present with your experience rather than living in an imagined future?

In tough times, we tend to focus on endless future possibilities; instead, try being present with your experience for more power.

Anchoring in Here and Now

This is a practice in concentration. We know that every 6-7 seconds, the mind will be distracted - and here's a technology for bringing it back. With practice, you'll build focus and actually change your brain capacity to concentrate.

Technology for concentration: practice with it to build focus and change your brain's capacity to concentrate every 6-7 seconds.

Get Focused

A simple exercise in dealing with difficult emotions. Photo by LucasVphotos on Unsplash

What Do You Need Right Now?

This meditation invites the listener to practice the art of not doing.

Practice the art of not doing through this meditation.

The Practice Of Not Doing

Let go of stress, anxiety and feeling overwhelmed...let go, get grounded, and relax deeply into peace and calm.

Relax deeply and let go of stress, anxiety, and feeling overwhelmed to achieve peace and calm.

Sigh of Relief - Grounding Meditation

Take a deep breath, it's going to be okay. This gentle meditation is an immediate recentering to calm yourself after high stress or intense emotions. Use this practice as many times as needed when dealing with regulating your emotions.

"Immediate recentering through gentle meditation to calm high stress or intense emotions; use as needed for emotional regulation."

It's Going To Be Okay

Sometimes we carry stress or anxiety in our body and it manifests as a knot in the stomach, tight shoulders, a tension headache, or a heaviness in the chest… During this meditation, we will use a simple visualization to help release stress and anxiety from the mind and body.

Meditation helps release stress and anxiety from the mind and body through visualization.

Release Stress (Tension) from the Body

Learning to trust can be a difficult task for all of us. Learning to trust yourself may seem impossible at times. We all experience moments of self-doubt. This short meditation invites you to begin to explore the concept of self-trust and helps you to set an intention for your day.

A short meditation to explore the concept of self-trust and set an intention for the day, as learning to trust oneself can be difficult.

Trust In Yourself

It's so easy to get caught up in thoughts, anxiety and stress. These Inner Refuge guided meditations invite the listener to locate the sensation of warmth and connect to an inner refuge.

Inner Refuge guided meditations help find warmth and peace amid stress and anxiety.

Inner Refuge: Warmth

Today's meditation will help you trust the journey.

Trust the Journey

In our daily lives, if we stop and tune in, we can often sense a background hum of anxiety or stress. This meditation has been designed to help you let go of this constant feeling of stress and anxiety, and to inside find equanimity and peace.

A meditation to let go of stress and anxiety and find inner balance and peace.

Letting Go of Anxiety

Start your day with this meditation to be more mindful, and build your calm confidence. Access your inner serenity with this quick and easy morning meditation. Perfect for beginning meditators as well as experienced meditators. I've added powerful binaural beats to access your creative intuition more deeply. This morning meditation is for cultivating stillness, abundance, and positivity, and can reduce stress, negativity, burnout, and anxiety. Using visualization, breathing, and mindful hypnosis techniques, you can harness your higher wiser self to guide your day. Let's find your Zen within. ~ Dr. Liz Slonena

Start your day with a quick and easy morning meditation for cultivating stillness, abundance, and positivity while reducing stress and anxiety.

Start Your Morning With Calm Confidence

Whatever you are going through, this short guided meditation will help you find calm and inner peace. In less than 3 minutes it incorporates a perfect mix of breathing, relaxing the body, and a gentle reminder of the impermanence of all things. Keep this recording close and let it become your companion through troubled times. Image by Iva Rajovic @ Unsplash.

Find calm and inner peace with a short guided meditation, incorporating breathing, relaxation, and a reminder of impermanence in under 3 minutes.

Become Calm In 3 Minutes

This meditation invites you to learn skills to deal with feelings of overwhelm and release any tensions from the body and mind.

Learn to deal with overwhelm and release tension with this meditation.

Manage Overwhelm

Projecting yourself into the future where all of the things that are causing your current stress are behind you, a time when there is nothing left for you to feeling stressed about. Savoring this feeling, allowing yourself to feel into the relief of being done with all of these things. Allowing your future self to soothe your current self. Photo by Jessica Felicio on Unsplash

Visualize a stress-free future self to soothe your present self.

Your Future Un-stressed Self

It really is going to be okay. Whatever it is that you are currently going through, there will be light at the end of the tunnel. I know things may seem hard right now and maybe like there is no way out but if you persevere then you will do just fine. In this meditation we are going to be focusing on the mantra 'it's going to be okay'. In doing so this will help us with confidence, self-belief, motivation, and inspiration towards the future.

Meditation on "It's going to be okay" helps to increase confidence, self-belief, motivation, and inspiration towards the future.

In these uncertain and even frightening times, it's so easy and understandable to get caught up in endless worrying. While of course we need to plan, spending all of our days and nights worrying just ups the anxiety levels. Thankfully, help is at hand - you can practice letting go of worry thoughts simply using the outbreath to help you. Breath is always there as our gateway into the here and now and out of the imagined future. Give it a go!

Practice letting go of worry thoughts by using the outbreath as a gateway into the present moment.

Letting Go of Worries with an Outbreath

How can mindfulness add you to working with anger? Let this meditation guide you in recognizing anger and how to work with it in a beneficial and healing way.

A mindfulness meditation guide to recognizing and working with anger in a beneficial and healing way.

Loosening The Web of Anger

Sometimes in this fast-paced world, you find yourself feeling overwhelmed. You may feel anxious or tense. You may find it difficult to make it through your day. This short grounding meditation will help you to slow down and focus on your breath. To refocus on your connection with the earth below and let go of some of the tension you are holding.

A short grounding meditation to slow down, focus on breath, and release tension.

Grounding Meditation for Anxiety

This meditation invites you to choose trust in yourself and the universe rather than fear. All feelings change, so is fear. No matter what you are going through, you can choose trust in the process and what the universe presents to you each moment.

Choose trust over fear in yourself and the universe; all feelings change, and you can trust the process no matter what you're going through.

Trust Rather Than Fear

It's so easy to get caught up in thoughts, anxiety and stress. These Inner Refuge guided meditations invite the listener to imagine or sense a sphere or bubble, so help connect to an inner refuge.

Inner Refuge meditations help combat stress by guiding listeners to imagine a sphere or bubble that connects them to an inner sanctuary.

Inner Refuge: Sphere

In these uncertain and even frightening times, it's so easy and understandable to get caught up in endless worrying. While of course we need to plan, spending all of our days and nights worrying just ups the anxiety levels. Thankfully, help is at hand - you can practice letting go of worry thoughts simply using the sense of the ground underneath you. Feeling the ground beneath you is always there as a gateway into the here and now and out of the imagined future. Give it a go!

Feeling the ground beneath you can help in letting go of worry thoughts during uncertain times, providing a gateway to the present moment.

Letting Go of Worries by Grounding Yourself

Forgiveness is something we all need from time to time. In this spoken word offering, we go through some meaningful affirmations to set the tone for a beautiful release. Remember forgiveness is all about you and nobody else. Forgiving yourself is essential in allowing you to move on with love and peace. Come back often to ease that heavy burden from your heart, and fully let go with love.

A spoken word offering on the importance of forgiving yourself and releasing burdens to move on with love and peace.

Forgiveness

With sound bowls and a soft ASMR voice, this meditation is intentionally designed to have you quickly receiving relief from the busy mind. If you are struggling getting untangled from your thoughts, or just need a breather from the day, this is intended for you. Sink into silence, expand your internal space, and dissolve all thoughts not aligned with your highest intention. If you benefitted from this, you may also enjoy: "Closing The Day - Bedtime Talk", "Allow Today To Be Different - Self Talk" and "Sacred, Zen Garden Slumber"

A meditation session designed with sound bowls and ASMR voice for quick relief from busy minds, with other related sessions available.

Relief from Static - Calming a Busy Mind

A meditation for if you've been feeling stuck. Release patterns of worry, doubt and fear and step into skillful action through setting your own intention.

Meditate to overcome feeling stuck by releasing patterns of worry, doubt, and fear, and stepping into skillful action through setting an intention.

From Uncertainty to Intention

If you are suffering from panic or anxiety, this guided meditation can help you quiet your mind and calm your nervous system. Please feel free to do this practice while sitting, standing, or lying down.

Guided meditation can help ease anxiety and panic by calming your nervous system. Practice while sitting, standing or lying down.

Panic And Anxiety Relief

Times are uncertain at the moment....but if we can find an anchor, a place to rest from the storm, it can be immensely restorative and calming for us.

In uncertain times, finding an anchor can restore calm and peace.

Finding Your Anchor in Uncertain Times

If your mind is racing with thoughts and worries or trying to figure out a problem that has not yet become clear, this practice is for you. Join Andrea as she speaks directly to your busy mind, offering it soothing solutions and a calm way out of the painful pattern of overthinking. Feel free to absorb her words, or change them up to better fit what you need to hear right now.

Andrea offers a practice to calm your overthinking mind and provide soothing solutions to problems.

Quieting Your Busy Mind

The breath is a great refuge from worry and uncertainty - it's going on all the time and we don't need to do anything with it, but we can rest our attention there as a refuge from worry, anxiety and planning for the future. A real resting place, available at any time.

The breath serves as a refuge from worry and uncertainty, providing a constant resting place for our attention without the need for action.

Finding Refuge in the Breath

The most important words we will ever hear are the words we say to ourselves. This meditation is designed to shift the internal conversation to be uplifting and increase self confidence.

A meditation to improve self-confidence by shifting internal conversation to be uplifting.

I Am Enough

Sometimes it can feel like we're going through life pushing a boulder uphill that's three times the size of us! There are so many things all at once and we're so overwhelmed. This session isn't about fixing it all, because we'll never really stop pushing the boulder. But it will teach you how to become so much more resilient and stronger so that the uphill game of life is less burdensome. We use a breathing technique to create stamina and calm strength. Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger from Pexels

Learn to be resilient and stronger in the uphill game of life with a breathing technique that creates stamina and calm strength.

Building Resilience

Are you firmly in "doing" mode today? Find some stress relief by giving yourself three minutes to sink into "being." After you rejuvenate yourself, the action that you take today will be much more effective. Enjoy! www.christina-mcmahon.com

Take a break from "doing" and indulge in 3 minutes of "being" for effective action; visit www.christina-mcmahon.com.

Shifting from Doing to Being

So the times are uncertain...finding your seat, your place where you can be stable and steady, can be so calming and grounding, and we can find that in meditation practice.

Amidst uncertainty, meditation provides stability and grounding as it helps in finding one's seat.

Finding Your Seat in Uncertain Times

Centering is a vital ability especially during times when we are challenged with a great deal. When we feel centered we feel like we have more resilience to deal with challenges. When a great oak tree is deeply rooted it has the ability to stay connected throughout high winds. This is our practice, to find ways to be deeply rooted in our own being.

Centering is key to building resilience, like the deeply rooted oak tree, during challenging times. Find ways to connect with your own being.

Center Yourself Meditation

In these uncertain times, we easily get fixated on worrying and forget to be grateful for the good things in our lives. Yet gratitude practice is a great way of boosting your mood and feeling better, leaving us better resourced to deal with problems. Give it a go today - there's always something you can be grateful for..

Practicing gratitude can boost your mood and help you deal with uncertainty; take time to appreciate the good things in your life.

Breathing in Something You're Grateful For

There are certain times in the day when we just need to take a breath and reconnect with ourselves. This meditation helps you to step out of the busyness of your day and gain back some clarity.

Take a breather with a meditation to escape daily busyness and regain mental clarity.

I Need to Take a Breath

An exercise on how to deal with the temporary state of uncertainties.

Learn to handle uncertainties with this exercise.

This Is a Temporary State

Feeling anxious? A practice to help us soothe our struggle with worry and anxiety.

Learn how to soothe anxiety and worry with a simple practice.

Dealing with Uncertainty: Meditations